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Originally Posted by stonetools
Fast forward today and look at the movie market? Most people don't buy movies anymore. They rent/stream them. The consumers made the "wrong" decision again.
I think the pattern here is clear. The MobileRead anti DRM types-digerati one and all- have issues with DRM because it doesn't fit their ideal of how ebooks should be sold- an ideal which puts maximum control in the hands of techie end users. They fear the publishers introduction of a cloud subscription model because they are afraid that it may offer advantages to the consumer in terms of price or convenience in return for giving up that all important control, and they are afraid that the consumers may "fall" for that model! 
Well, I guess we can't have THAT. |
And you're no less of a "cloud" digerati? <shrug> If you think containing content on the cloud will stop piracy, you're badly mistaken. Hackers will just write "vampire" programs. All you're doing is supporting a model guaranteed to annoy the current "heavy user" customers. The denizens of Mobile Read
are the heavy using customers. And they don't seem to be pleased with your goals...
As far as price goes, libraries are cheaper than any e-book subscription model. As far as convenience is concerned, is punching one button too much work? (Amazon)
You're not getting a warm welcome for your ideas, because many of us see the holes. We don't want to be dependent on a profit maximizing corporation for our history and entertainment. (That's different from paying for it. We just don't believe in renting. - In my case that goes for
anything, except for large capital investment/one time use items, like a hotel room.) BUt the corporate world
wants everybody to renters, if they can just figure out how to make us. It's called planned obsolescence, in another age.